Smyrna times., 1887-02-02
Rev. George W. Bovine.
SEEKING RESTORATION TO HIS MINIS
TERIAL FUNCTIONS IN THEP.E.
CHURCH.

Rev. George w. Bovine, the former
rector of st. Peters Protestant Episco-
pal Church at Salisbury, Maryland,
who left the Protestant Episcopal
Church and entered the Catholic
Church last November, has taken the
preliminary steps for returning to the
Protestant Episcopal Church. Last
week he sent letter to the standing
committee of the Diocese of Easton ac-
knowledging that he had made mis-
take in leaving his church, which he
regretted, and that he desired toreturn
to the fold in that church. The letter
was written from New York, where the
mother and sisters Of the writer reside.
The standing committee submitted the
letter to Bishop Paret, of the Diocese
of Maryland, and requested him to act
for them in the manner required by the
canons of the church. A bishop NAV
remit and terminate any sentence of
deposition pronounced by him on a
presbyter or deacon. The person so
deposed cannot be received back into
the Protestant Episcopal Church under
at least one year. He is not allowed,
in fact, to make formal application to
be so received until he has spent one
year as a lay member of the church.
When application is so made Bishop
Paret must, in accordance with canon
II, if he desires to remit the sentence of
deposition, submit his proposed action
to the bishops of the five nearest do
ceses of that church, and must receive
" in writing from at least four of these
bishops their approval of the remission
and consent thereto. Bishop Paret
must also "act with the unanimous ad-
vice and consent of the standing com
mittee of Easton." 1t is not, therefore,
an easy matter for a minister of the
Protestant Episcopal Church to obtain
restoration to his ministerial functions.
1t will not, however, be requisite that
the depOsed clergyman shall be re-or-
dained, as the deposition does not in
validate the orders of the ministry, but
only disaliows their exercise. Mr..
Bovine was rebaptized conditionally
by Rev. Dwight E. Lyman at St. Mary
Catholic Church, Govanstown, Balti-
more county, November 10th last. He
was deposed November goth by Bishop
Paret at st. Paul's P. E. Church, Balti-
more, at the request of the standing
committee of the Diocese of Easton.
Sentence was pronounced in the pres
ence of Revs. S. G. Roberts, Charles E.
Buck, presbyters of the Diocese OF
EastOn, and Rev. DR.. J. S. B. Hodges
and Rev. Alfred Harding of the Dio-
cese Of Maryland. Mr.. Bovine was
four years ago assistant rector of the
church in which his sentence of deposi.
tiOn was pronounced.
Mr.. Bovine, after being conditionally
rebaptiZed into the Catholic Curch
went to st. Sulplce Catholic Seminary
on North Paca street, to study for tn,
Catholic priesthood. He only remained
there few days, however. He com
planned of headache and other ill-effect
on his health of the life in the semi
nary, and when he left it was under
) stood by the president, Rev. DIR. Mag
! nieu, that it was solely on that account
f Nothing more has been heard from hin
at the seminary. 1t is stated by som,
| of his friends in Baltimore that Rev
/ Mr.. Bovine has been employed as
} writer on the New York World sine
going to New York. He is in the 3Otl
, year of his age. He is a native of New
York, and a graduate of the Genera
, Theological Seminary in that city,
, / Baltimore SIM